MKFIFO(1)

💅 MKFIFO(1) — the mkfifo glow-up 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands section of the manual, and today's main character is mkfifo — she makes FIFOs, aka named pipes, and she does it flawlessly. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

mkfifo — make FIFOs (named pipes) 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mkfifo [OPTION]... NAME...

like… that's it. that's the whole vibe. you give it options, you give it names, it gives you pipes. 💜

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs. that's the whole job, and she EATS every time. ✨

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. (yes bestie, that means if --mode needs a value, then -m needs that exact same value. no shortcuts, no exceptions, fr fr. 🙈)

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -m, --mode=MODE — set file permission bits to MODE, not a=rw - umask. so instead of doing the default little dance, you're just handing her the perms directly. iconic. 💅
• -Z — set the SELinux security context to default type. security girlie behavior, we love to see it. 🔥
• --context[=CTX] — works like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX. so you can vibe with the default, or you can be specific. your call, queen. 👑
• --help — display this help and exit. the "bestie explain urself" button. 🫶
• --version — output version information and exit. for when you gotta know exactly which era of coreutils you're living in. ⭐

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Written by David MacKenzie. king behavior, honestly. 👑

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? not on my watch — tell the right people:

• Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
• GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
• General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
• Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• mkfifo(3)
• Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mkfifo>
• or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mkfifo invocation'
• Packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2)
• Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
• License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
• This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
• There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

bestie. NO WARRANTY. to the extent permitted by law. she's free, she's open, she's yours to remix, but if something goes sideways that's on you, not on her. 💀

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okay and for the lil sign-off: this page is from GNU coreutils 9.10, dated August 2026, living in the MKFIFO(1) manual. slay, go make some pipes bestie 🎀💖✨